The website on which Fly Romania plane tickets could be booked posts a fixed phone number, but nobody is answering calls. ZF could not contact Catalin Butu, general manager of TEN Airways and the one who created Fly Romania brand, either.
This March, businessman Ovidiu Tender and Catalin Butu, the manager of TEN Airways, announced Bucharest-Tulcea, Bucharest-Timisoara regular flights, as well as flights to Frankfurt, Verona, Genoa from Bucharest and to Bergamo and Frankfurt from Tulcea and to Verona from Timisoara.
At that time, Catalin Butu stated he expected 30,000 passengers on internal routes and 100,000 passengers overall.
Now, though, Tender speaks of a “marketing error” and of Catalin Butu’s resignation.
“I hoped the project would work, but it did not. I just leased the aircraft to a company owned by the mother of Catalin Butu, who created Fly Romania brand. They owe me EUR400,000,” said Tender.
The company that sold tickets for Fly Romania flights is Necessair Consulting, 100% owned by Catalin Butu.
TEN Airways operates in a charter system and ACMI system in countries of Europe, Asia and Africa.
(English version by Catalina Apostoiu)